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Watch Knob: Multiple Personality Poser With Poor Taste

I enjoy your column very much and consider it as a great expression of the essential taste for men's watches.

I personally enjoy my Omega Aqua Terra Day Date and was thinking to acquire as a sporty piece a simple black bezel Planet Ocean, but occasionally I spend a lot of time in Ex-USSR oil rich republics and was really impressed by the desire of some locals to carry huge flashy things on their hands.

So I would like to ask you for an opinion on watches like Richard Mille, Frank Muller and Cvstos?

This is a very intriguing letter, which reads rather as if two people penned it. Up to the words “Planet Ocean” it seems to have been written by a person of some discretion and reasonable good taste. Beyond that point, it plunges into an inexplicable morass of stunningly bald poor taste with such rapidity, that one suspects either dual authorship, or foul play.

If you are really a single author and not an Agatha Christie scenario, I suggest foregoing any of the three brands you mention and go for a company that really puts the “hor” in horology: Hublot. They will vend you”flashy” with astonishing efficiency and you’ll find on your wrist a passport to a world of like-minded hoods, poseurs, and horological ignoramuses beyond your wildest dreams of Caligulan decadence.